Ulaanbaatar looks like a word signalling the start of a fantasy novella; in fact it’s the capital of Mongolia. I remember learning this from a cryptic clue: “Banal tour around capital” (9) The first two words form a pair that feels too strange to be useful: what sort of tour…

Tim Ferris recommended this in a 5-Bullet Friday, with a firm warning not to read or seek out any blurbs & previews as to its content. My ears were pricked and I began enjoying in July 2021. With that warning in mind I won’t go into any detail on its…

In composing, arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering music, there are certain processes that repeat ad infinitum in some fairly consistent ways, with clear time-saving potential especially over the timescales (months & years) that it can take to create a long-playing album. Since my first visit to a studio I’ve been…

One of the greatest adventures of our time is the modernising and digitising of national tax systems. …

Almost all the 19 Xamarin tutorials currently available from Microsoft via MSLearn end in something fairly basic; for instance the keypad-translation app which lets you type a phone number and get back the word value: In theory, by the time you’ve followed the steps of each tutorial, you should have…

In pt9 “What Is Noble?” of Beyond Good And Evil (free full text readable & searchable here), Neitzsche’s aphorism 296 is, atypically, addressed not to the reader but to an abstract inspiring presence, and in the first person: (bolding mine) Oh, what are you anyway, my written and painted thoughts…

For those seeking to gearshift into a new realm of expertise on the cutting edge of innovative tech, there are endless opportunities to upskill in exciting topics and one of these is MLOps. The team from FourthBrain are offering regular courses and, coordinated by a team including Andrew Ng, these…

DataHub’s YouTube channel released a “101” beginners’ guide this week, focussed on (manual) handling of authentication protocols for teams implementing the app. Single-SignOn is referenced as one of the two ways to authenticate users; the others JAAS (“Jazz”). The audio (and subtitles) cut out briefly between 3m48s-3m52s during discussion of…

As distinct from CodeArtifact & Artifactory, this is a much less interactive “Service” than those typically encountered within AWS Console… to the extent that I was surprised to find it classed as such, i.e. as an asset equivalent to EC2, S3, SageMaker; under the same information architecture. …